You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDI don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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